Author: Ziehen, Theodor [1862-1950]
Title: Das Gedächtnis : Festrede gehalten am Stiftungstage der Kaiser Wilhelms-Akademie für das militärärztliche Bildungswesen..,.1907
Description: Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1908. orig.wrappers. 22x15cm, 50 pp.. Some minor rubbing. Corner bump. Good. ¶ ["Georg Theodor Ziehen was a German neurologist and psychiatrist... Following graduation he worked as an assistant to Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum at the mental hospital in Görlitz, and in 1887 became an assistant to Otto Binswanger at the Psychiatric Clinic in Jena. At Jena one of his patients was philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Subsequently he was a professor of psychiatry in Utrecht (from 1900), Halle (from 1903) and Berlin (1904-1912)....Ziehen published nearly 450 works on psychology, neurology, anatomy, et al. He was author of an important textbook Die Geisteskrankheiten des Kindesalters (Mental Diseases of Childhood), which was one of the first systematic works concerning child psychiatry in Germany. He also penned the textbook Psychiatrie für Ärzte und Studirende which was published in four editions between 1894 and 1911. In his writings, Ziehen is credited with introducing the terms 'affective psychosis' and 'psychopathic constitution'. Along with neurologist Hermann Oppenheim, the Ziehen- Oppenheim syndrome is named, which is a genetic torsion dystonia (spasms) due to a lesion of the basal ganglia. In 1898 he published Psychophysiologische Erkenntnistheorie ...with psychology being the basis of his philosophic belief system. He was a practitioner of associative psychology, and from a philosophic standpoint advocated monistic positivism, or what he called the 'principle of immanence'" - wikipedia].

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